Overview
- The film opened on June 26 to about $37.1 million domestically and roughly $68–83 million worldwide in its first days, well under studio tracking and industry expectations.
- Critic and audience response has been lukewarm, with mid‑50s aggregate scores on Rotten Tomatoes and a B‑ CinemaScore that has weakened word‑of‑mouth.
- Sources report repeated test screenings produced low scores, the studio and director Craig Gillespie produced competing final cuts that were tested against each other, and the studio's version narrowly won the bake‑off.
- Warner Bros. spent roughly $170 million to make the film and about $120 million marketing it, and analysts now project possible theatrical losses commonly cited between about $80 million and $120 million based on break‑even estimates of $300 million to $375 million.
- The weak launch increases pressure on James Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU relaunch, raises the chance of an early digital window, and puts upcoming DC releases and budgeting strategy under close industry scrutiny.